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source: Learn English with Benjamin [engVid] 2018年3月8日
You have five senses: hearing, sight, smell, taste, and touch. You need a wide vocabulary to be able to accurately describe what you feel through your senses. For example, not all smells are the same. Do you know the difference between "fresh", "fragrant", "pungent", and "musty"? Watch on because in this lesson, I will teach you 50 (!) words to describe not only odours, but what you experience through all five of your senses. There will be ten words for each sense, all of which will help your conversation become more interesting to your listener, as they will be able to imagine your words more clearly and more vividly.

source: mmmEnglish 2018年3月29日 In this lesson, we'll take a closer look at the verbs (to) LEND and (to) BORROW ... These verbs describe the same action, but from a different perspective. If you use them incorrectly, your sentence can be confusing and incorrect! Look at this example: My mum lent me her car. I borrowed my mum's car. These two sentences are talking about the exact same action!

source: Linda Raynier 2017年2月1日 In this video, "What are your weaknesses? - Sample Answer", Linda Raynier shows you how to communicate job weaknesses by using an example of a weakness for an interview. Weaknesses in job interview is a very common question that is asked and you want to be prepared by knowing what your weakness in job interview is. To understand your greatest weakness interview answers, you need to know it's not a personality trait. Weaknesses for an interview are based on a certain context. Watch the video to figure out your interview weakness answers.

You need to know several things about weaknesses: 1. 1) Your weakness is NOT equal a personality trait 2. 2) Your weakness is NOT a strength in disguise Then follow 3 steps that will help you to assess what your weaknesses are.

Bonus: Here are some helpful lines to get you started: “In situations where ______(insert your context/situation here)” “I have tended or tend to ___________(insert the way you exhibit this weakness, not the weakness itself)” “This has made me appear ______(insert weakness here” “As a result, I’ve learned to be cognizant of this fact and no longer ______(insert the way you exhibit this weakness)”“Instead, I now _____(insert your solution that resolves this weakness)” This has resulted in ___(insert your successful results)”

source: Interactive English 2018年3月17日Many learners would like to travel abroad to practice and learn English. So if you ever decide to go to the US, here are 15 things that I found surprising about this iconic country. Watch & learn.

source: Official IELTS Listening test 2018年2月18日
ielts listening practice test 2018
IELTS ACADEMIC band 9 material.(CLICK ON 'CC' UNDER THE VIDEO TO SEE THE SUBTITLES)
The IELTS Listening test will take about 30 minutes, and you will have an extra 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
Listen to the instructions for each section of the test carefully. Answer all of the questions.
There are 40 questions altogether. Each question carries one mark.
For each part of the test, there will be time for you to look through the questions and time for you to check your answers.
When you have completed all four parts of the Listening test you will have ten minutes to copy your answers on to a separate answer sheet.

The IELTS Listening Test IELTS Candidate DO LISTENING TEST IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS You will be given time to read through the questions before you listen. You will hear each recording of the Listening test only once. As you listen, write your answers on the question paper. At the end of the test, you will have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet in pencil. You may write your answers in lower case or capital letters.
Instructions to candidates In the actual test you will be given the following instructions: do not open this question paper until you are told to do so write your name and candidate number in the spaces at the top of this page listen to the instructions for each part of the paper carefully answer all the questions while you are listening, write your answers on the question paper you will have 10 minutes at the end of the test to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet; use a pencil At the end of the test you will be asked to hand in the question paper.
The IELTS Listening Test IELTS Candidate DO LISTENING TEST IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS :- You will be given time to read through the questions before you listen. You will hear each recording of the Listening test only once.
As you listen, write your answers on the question paper. At the end of the test, you will have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet in pencil. You may write your answers in lower case or capital letters.

Instructions to candidates
In the actual test you will be given the following instructions:
do not open this question paper until you are told to do so
write your name and candidate number in the spaces at the top of this page
listen to the instructions for each part of the paper carefully
answer all the questions
while you are listening, write your answers on the question paper
you will have 10 minutes at the end of the test to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet; use a pencil

source: Official IELTS Listening test 2018年1月28日
ielts listening practice test 2018
IELTS ACADEMIC band 9 material.(CLICK ON 'CC' UNDER THE VIDEO TO SEE THE SUBTITLES)
The IELTS Listening test will take about 30 minutes, and you will have an extra 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
Listen to the instructions for each section of the test carefully. Answer all of the questions.
There are 40 questions altogether. Each question carries one mark.
For each part of the test, there will be time for you to look through the questions and time for you to check your answers.
When you have completed all four parts of the Listening test you will have ten minutes to copy your answers on to a separate answer sheet.

The IELTS Listening Test IELTS Candidate DO LISTENING TEST IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS You will be given time to read through the questions before you listen. You will hear each recording of the Listening test only once. As you listen, write your answers on the question paper. At the end of the test, you will have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet in pencil. You may write your answers in lower case or capital letters.
Instructions to candidates In the actual test you will be given the following instructions: do not open this question paper until you are told to do so write your name and candidate number in the spaces at the top of this page listen to the instructions for each part of the paper carefully answer all the questions while you are listening, write your answers on the question paper you will have 10 minutes at the end of the test to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet; use a pencil At the end of the test you will be asked to hand in the question paper.
The IELTS Listening Test IELTS Candidate DO LISTENING TEST IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS :- You will be given time to read through the questions before you listen. You will hear each recording of the Listening test only once.
As you listen, write your answers on the question paper. At the end of the test, you will have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet in pencil. You may write your answers in lower case or capital letters.

Instructions to candidates
In the actual test you will be given the following instructions:
do not open this question paper until you are told to do so
write your name and candidate number in the spaces at the top of this page
listen to the instructions for each part of the paper carefully
answer all the questions
while you are listening, write your answers on the question paper
you will have 10 minutes at the end of the test to copy your answers onto the separate answer sheet; use a pencil

source: Oxford Online English 2018年1月18日Learn how to write a review for the FCE writing exam in this lesson. For many people, the writing section is the most challenging part of the FCE test. In this lesson, you’ll see a step-by-step process for writing a review. You’ll see exactly what to do at each stage and how to improve your FCE writing score.This lesson will help you:
- Understand the FCE writing task and how scoring works. - Learn how to plan your FCE writing review. - Write a first draft for the FCE writing review. - Understand ways to improve that first draft of the FCE writing review. - Make sure you are using good grammar, sentence structure, spelling, word count and more to get a good mark in the FCE Writing Exam.

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